You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast.

Today, friends, we have a very special treat for you.

I am joined by Ilana from lifewellcruised.com and

life well cruised on YouTube and we're going to talk about all things cruising.

Welcome to CruiseTips TV Unplugged. I'm your host Sherry and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel the world

creating cruise videos and vlogs.

In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream

cruise.

Hey, Alana, it's so wonderful to see you.

Oh, hi, Sherry.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you for being here.

I'm really excited about our conversation.

I think that this is the first time you've been on our

podcast, but I think I was on your YouTube channel a few years ago and it feels like it's been

an eternity. Or maybe it was right when cruising restarted. Does that sound about right?

I think so. I think it was about a year ago, but it feels like so much has happened even in the

last year that it feels like longer. Yeah, it really has

because last year we were at this point where we had all sort of had this opportunity, maybe to

jump on one of those first summer cruises out of the U.S. or the Bahamas, and it was all so thrilling

and new. And now here we are, a little over a year into do it and all of the protocols are sort of been

dropped pretty much at this point most of them are gone and it's just a whole new world isn't it

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